Grade 6 · History
The Dust Bowl
In the 1930s, part of the southern Great Plains became known as the Dust Bowl. The region stretched across parts of Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. For most of that decade, fierce winds lifted dry soil off the farms and carried it away in rolling clouds of dust.
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